Monday, January 30, 2012

1,200 students marched for Peace & Communal Harmony and took the pledge to work for Peace and Integration

1,200 NSS students from 53 colleges of Mumbai & SNDT University along with the Gandhian activists, social workers, peace-loving citizens marched for Peace and Communal Harmony from Azad Maidan to Hutatma Chowk on 30th January. The Peace March was jointly organized by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Smarak Nidhi to commemorate 64rd Death Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

To commemorate Gandhi's 64th Death Anniversary, 300 books on & by Gandhi, Vinoba & Sarvodaya will be displayed & sale at 50% discount by Mumbai Sarvodaya Mandal & Gandhi Book Centre with the financial assistance of ‘Babulnath Mandir Charities’ from at specially erected Mandap at Hutatma Chowk 30th January to 4th February, 2012 between 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. and at Gandhi Book Centre, Nana Chowk from 11.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. everyday.

Top-selling books, 'An Autobiography' of Mahatma Gandhi of 450 pages and a set of five important books, 'Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi' of 1500 pages, will be available at only Rs. 15/- & Rs. 75/- respectively at the exhibition.

Mahatma Gandhi demonstrated to the world that Non-Violent
methods and Satyagraha (Holding to the Truth)
can be used to bring about profound social change
and lasting peace. Known as the Father of Modern India and an Apostle of Peace,
Houstonians will commemorate and honor this great man at the Shraddhanjali
(Memorial Service) to Mahatma
Gandhi on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 3:30
p0m at Unity of Houston-Pyramid
Hall, located at 2929 Unity Drive, Houston, TX 77057. Honorable
Consul General of India, Shri Sanjiv Arora will preside as the Chief Guest. Please join
us at Unity of Houston for this most auspicious event and pay homage
to Mahatma Gandhi, the man who personifies the universal values of peace,
non-violence, truth and love.

The
event will begin with a prayer at the Peace Post in the courtyard at 3:30 pm.
The
event is organized by Mahatma Gandhi Library in collaboration with Unity
Peacemakers. For more information please contact Dr. Manish Wani 713-829-6979
or Unity of Houston 713-782-4050.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

“I had learnt the true practice of law. I had learnt to find
the better side of human nature and to enter men’s hearts. I realized the true
function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so
indelibly burnt into me, that a large part of my time during the twenty years
of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises
of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby – not even money, certainly not
my soul.”

Saturday, January 14, 2012

On this holy day, my eyes strayed to a book that I have owned for
a few years but hadn't read properly. Eknath Easwaran has profiled Mahatma
Gandhi beautifully in his book "Gandhi, The
Man". A Geeta blog is the perfect venue to
review a book written by a noted teacher of the Geeta about that colossus of
the 20th century, Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Gandhi and the formation of the African National Congress of South Africa

"January 8, 1912, is the centenary of the African National Congress of South Africa."

The birth of the African National Congress a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of Africa, marking the beginning of the end of centuries of exploitation and humiliation of the continent. It received hardly any attention at the time internationally or from the white establishment in South Africa.

M. K. Gandhi, who was then looking after the families of prisoners and ex-prisoners at the Tolstoy Farm near Johannesburg, during a lull in the passive resistance movement in the Transvaal, hailed the event as representing “the awakening of Africa.” ...Read More

Pannalal Dasgupta (aka Panna Babu) wrote the Bengali original
of this outstanding, insightful book on Gandhi in 1954-55, when imprisoned in
the Alipore Central Jail. An indomitable revolutionary himself, he realised
that Gandhi was indeed an extraordinary revolutionary who sought a radical
change in the human condition, which could not be brought about without causing
a ferment in society.

Monday, January 2, 2012

A prayer meeting was organized
by India Against
Corruption (IAC) volunteers at Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, Mumbai
today for the speedy recovery of ailing Anna Hazare. The
prayer meeting was held between 5-7 pm.

Mayank Gandhi, co-ordinator of
India Against Corruption participated in the prayer meeting. It was start with Gandhi
bhajans, followed by sarva-dharma prarthana and ramdhun. Everyone prayed for
speedy recovery and well-being of Anna Hazare.

Mayank Gandhi said, “The entire
country is worried for Anna. People all over the nation are praying for him. We
have organised prayer meetings at six places in Mumbai.